steve: there you have got the governor of the great state of florida he made it clear don t mess with this storm. right now it is a cat 4 with maximum sustained winds at 130 miles per hour. and janice just showed us the map and right now and if we look at the big wall right now, right now the center of the storm, the eye of the storm is 8 miles away from the coast of florida. ainsley: janice was telling us put it into perspective. the category, it does matter. but that s not the only thing you look at. you have to look at the storm surge. this is a cat 4. it s not going to increase to a 5, she said. katrina was a 3. and janice, you said the storm surge was how much with katrina? janice: 30 feet. ainsley: this one could be 16 and a cat 4. this is a cat 3 january january that s why it s deceiving and that s why we have always been saying don t look at the winds per se. you can hide from the winds.
Tide in daytona beach florida. and no one is looking forward to that, because it s going to time i itself perversely with the arrival of the storm surge. water is going to get packed up against the coastline of florida and up through georgia and south carolina where the coastline takes a bend. where the water has no place to go, except up into those rivers and marshlands and estuaries. and that s what we re fearing most. most of the deaths, most of the injuries from storms come from the storm surge and not a result of the winds and damage from the winds per se. our thanks to tammy lightner. another break in our coverage. we ll get the latest tracking data on this storm right after this. [ crowd noise ]